Geoffrey Leech

Everyone associated with the British National Corpus will be very sad to hear about the passing away of Geoffrey Leech, Emeritus Professor at Lancaster University. Geoff was the intellectual driving force behind the BNC, and carried out an enormous amount of the work to make it a reality. It was a great honour to have worked with him, and he will be missed. Tributes to Geoffrey can be found at http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/geoffreyleech/.